Mickey Speeds to N64

It wasn't long ago that Nintendo and Disney Interactive announced that they would be teaming up to bring multiple Mickey Mouse based games to N64, Game Boy and Nintendo's next-generation console. The announcement was, of course, extremely vague, offering no gaming details whatsoever. A developer for the majority of the titles was named, though: Rare.

While concrete details are still very hard to come by, Nintendo's Peter Main has let the word slip on the name of the Mickey Mouse Nintendo 64 game. It's called Mickey Speedway USA and, according to Main, it'll launch in time for the holiday season 2000.

"And yes, even this great title [Zelda Gaiden] will have a powerful companion in the holiday 2000 lineup, in the form of a huge, family-appeal creation from Disney Interactive and our partners at Rare," commented Main at a recent conference in New York. "As you probably know, Disney has declared 2000 'the year of Mickey,' and our Mickey Speedway USA will be the major interactive part of that."

The game, which is said to be based on a Disney animated movie of the same name, is obviously a racer. Exactly what kind of racer, we're not sure, but it seems safe to assume that its style and approach won't fall very far from Rare's already established Diddy Kong Racing.